THE LEAVE AND THE BABY

Levi told his pregnant wife he was done, said he didn't want to be "tied down" anymore and needed to "live his life," then watched her become the villain for leaving the city he'd just abandoned her in.

For a decade, the poster and Levi, 33, had been together. They married five years ago, built a life in Levi's hometown on the west coast, and expected to start a family there. The pregnancy was planned. The baby was due next month. From the outside, it looked like the kind of settled, ordinary life people build on purpose.

Then a few weeks ago, Levi announced he wanted a divorce.

He insisted there was nobody else, but the poster says she believes he has been seeing someone since. He told her he was not ready to be tied down, that he was still young, and that he wanted to live his life. He also wanted her out of the house.

She didn't leave right away. The house was also hers, she said, and she had paid the down payment. Levi moved in with a friend, Louis, while she stayed put and tried to figure out what came next.

What came next was math.

She says she makes good money, but not enough to keep the same lifestyle on her own while pregnant and facing life as a single mom. "I couldn't afford to be a single mom in San Diego," she wrote, adding that she had friends there but not the kind of support system Levi had, and no family nearby.

So she made a decision: she moved back home.

Her company had a location in her hometown, so she kept her job. Her parents stepped in immediately. They are divorced, she said, and hate each other, but they now share a hatred of Levi. They found her a rental, refused repayment, agreed to cover her divorce lawyer and copays, and her mom plans to help with the baby after maternity leave.

Levi exploded.

He accused her of moving to get back at him and to keep him out of the baby's life. She said that wasn't why she left, but that it was "definitely a plus." He pointed out that his job has no location in her hometown and would not keep him if he moved. She said he could get another job there. He called that "too much to ask of him."

Then she brought up child support. Once the baby is born, she said, she will seek it. Levi fired back that she needed to decide whether he could be a dad or no. She answered that he would be a dad regardless, and if he did not move, he could be one by paying child support.

Now the messages have been rolling in from Levi, his family, and their friends, all of them saying she is keeping his baby from him. The poster says she does not know what to say to them.